January: Kafka® (Apache, not Franz)

When

From: 1/3/2019 6:00:00 PM

To: 1/3/2019 8:00:00 PM

Publication date: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM

Where

Street: 1327 Grandin Rd SW

City: Roanoke

State: Virginia

Country: USA

What

Presented by: Brian Lanham

Kafka® is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps. It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, wicked fast. In this presentation we’ll learn about Kafka consumers and producers as well as Kafka streams. We’ll build an application using Kafka and talk about different problems which may have a Kafka solution. For example, event/messaging bus, integration platform, and data migration are all problems with potential Kafka solutions. Finally, we’ll address the age old conundrum: “I had a problem and solved it with Kafka. Now I have two problems.”

After serving as a nuclear-qualified electrician for six years in the United States Navy, Brian earned a Computer Science degree from Penn State University. Brian is an Enterprise Architect for Advance Auto. His Twitter handle is @codesailor.